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Definition of Cocksureness
1. Noun. Total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant.
Generic synonyms: Certainty
Derivative terms: Cocksure, Overconfident
Definition of Cocksureness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being cocksure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cocksureness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocksureness
Literary usage of Cocksureness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arthur Hugh Clough by James Insley Osborne (1920)
"So rank did cocksureness grow, and so completely did it overspread the land, that
in the next generation Matthew Arnold, with the general agreement of the ..."
2. An Onlookers̓ Note-book by George William Erskine Russell (1902)
"And if it is permissible to translate Mr. Gladstone's dignified English into the
vulgar tongue, that habit may be called cocksureness. ..."
3. A Literary History of Scotland by John Hepburn Millar (1903)
"cocksureness" is one of the notes of his writing, as indeed it is of the work of
his staff—" cocksureness," and the species of rationalism which regards as ..."
4. Finland and the Finns by Arthur Reade (1917)
"Among the younger people, the attitude of condescension and cocksureness towards
Christians is, perhaps, a little exaggerated; they give the impression that ..."
5. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"... (which is generally mere gaucherie) of our stolidity and cocksureness, and
our dislike of your superior talkativeness and hustle and your cocksureness, ..."
6. The Pathway of Life by Leo Tolstoy, Archibald John Wolfe (1919)
"... but beyond that there is nothing more." What cocksureness! "Complex bodies
are composed of elements, and elements are indissoluble." What cocksureness! ..."
7. Avenues to Health by Eustace Miles (1902)
"The author of this book cannot speak with the cocksureness of the ordinary
advocates of these and other methods : he cannot choose for another more than one ..."
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